Flashback to Trunk or Treat

As always, our family connected our trunk and costume decorations together for our church Trunk or Treat.  We went with a Circus theme this year.  It was a lot of fun.

I wonder. . . . .

Do you like clowns?

Really?

How about Tiger tamers?

Or Circus Pony Riders? (and her friend “Jessie” from Toy Story) Here is Diana’s Circus tent trunk 

And Shannon’s Concessions Trunk - Watch out for the Cheetah!

Oh, an adorable Circus Elephant! 

Everyone’s circus favorite – cotton candy and popcorn.  Hee hee!  I’m looking kind of manly in Mark’s yellow shirt.  Ha!

Here are the girls in front of our acrobatic trunk

This is TJ’s kind of costume right there. :-)

And the kids (except Sawyer the mime) 

Somehow I missed Debbie’s Ticket Trunk and Sawyer as a mime, so you will have to click over to Shannon’s blog to see those and Mark the strong man!  http://www.herewegrowagain.blogspot.com/2011/10/happy-halloween-2011.html

Big Year

Did I mention that my brother turned 40 this year??!!  You will often find him with children attached.  :-)

 

And my parents celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary!! Here they are at one of our favorite places – Quatro’s!  :-)

 

I am definitely blessed to have a wonderful family that is loving and serving Christ and are great encouragers to me.  Congratulations to you!  Love you all!

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Adley’s Big Day

Adley has certainly enjoyed turning 5!  I think Jaylyn has enjoyed Adley turning 5 too.  Not only did Adley generously share her presents from her party on Saturday (this labeled her as the BEST sister ever from Jaylyn), but Jaylyn got to enjoy the lunch at Incredible Pizza along with Adley.  :-)  I think Jaylyn even woke Adley up because she couldn’t wait to give her the gift she had bought for Adley with her own money.  Adley has been all smiles and has tried to enjoy each moment.  She got to play around while Jaylyn did her school this morning.  Then, TJ came home at lunch and Adley opened her presents and we headed to Incredible Pizza.  Adley couldn’t wait to spin the birthday wheel.  This was the perfect day to go because it was practically empty today.  Well, after the school group left anyway. . . but that was about the time we were arriving.  Anyway, it was lots of fun and thanks to TJ hitting it big on one of the spin the wheel games, they got some fun junk for prizes.  :-)  Then, cupcakes at home and Wii!  What a day for a five year old.  

Good Morning, Birthday Girl!

“I wanted this!!”

Hooray! 

Can you tell she is loving her gifts?   (This is a ballerina music box, btw)

“I’m Five!”

Bowling at Incredible Pizza  

Sisters

I had some fun with my Babycake maker my mom got me last year.  Mini cupcake sandwiches.  :-)

Leighton was enjoying singing to her!

We love you, Adley!!!

FYI

I have more vacation pictures.  You will see them eventually. . .

There are lots of other pictures too.  Eventually you may also see those.  :-)

Leighton is loving baby dolls and likes to cover them with a “blankelet”.

I also started to do some potty training.  She is doing okay, but life is really too crazy to focus enough on that.  So, I have had quite a few messes to clean up. 

She also told me the other day that the Barbie pushed her.  (She had a smile on her face.)

Adley had a birthday party this weekend and her birthday is tomorrow!

More will come about her later. With all of the rest of the posts. . . .

Jaylyn is questioning me about everything I type right now.

She is full of imagination and QUESTIONS.  :-)  Even now, commenting on this smiley face I typed.

C ya!

Vacation – Part 2

We arrived in Gulf Shores the next day and the girls were super excited to explore the condo and start having fun!  We had dinner at Lamberts (yes they have one of those down there!) and went for a walk on the beach that evening after unpacking.  Besides some construction being done at our condo complex, the rest of the week was lots of fun in the sun!

Want some fried okra?

Enjoying our view at Lulu’s

We even saw some dolphins following one of the big boats going by.

Adley and I even got to check out the fun paintings on the wall in the bathroom.  (Four year olds get excited about fun bathrooms you know. . .)

Photo op at LuLu’s

And a little bean bag toss

Leighton too!

We checked out the pier

Wait for me!

Checking the view

It was a bit windy!

In fact, it was a lot windy!

See any thing down there? 

Wait, I see something up there!! Birds!

Sisters. . . 

This is where Leighton had enough of the pictures

She at least stood here without crying for this one. . .   

Stay tuned for even more pictures of three girls and a beach. . .